West Australiana. Scarce First Edition. xvi, 165 p., [9] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. With frontisp., and 8 full-page plates.
It is both a general study of Western Australia’s convict era, and a biography of a particular convict, William Sykes. First published in 1959 by Oxford University Press in Melbourne, it was for many years the only published history of the era.